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Paul Ryan: It makes no sense for child support payments not to go to the children. That is unfortunately what is happening today.…

On the recordMarch 12, 2008
It makes no sense for child support payments not to go to the children. That is unfortunately what is happening today. And I would very much like to work with the gentlelady and anybody who is interested in coming up with the offsets in the Ways and Means Committee, from which this jurisdiction derives, to find a way to fix this problem. I think this is an area that has wide bipartisan support. And this is one of those areas where I surely would like to think we can come up with the savings to fix this injustice.
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Paul Ryan
Wisconsin

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Discussing child support payments and the need for bipartisan solutions.

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